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Welcome to the party of gift-givers! If you are new to the club, pat yourself on the back and be proud for making your friends smile with carefully curated gifts that are meaningful. When giving gifts to particular friends, be intentional about the purpose of that gift and not just because you feel obliged to expand their shoe collection. Bridal showers present great opportunities to give ladies gifts that they will find useful in their new married life or use as an escape or means of aiding a hobby.
Here are five unique bridal shower gift ideas:

If your turn-up game is tight, you should love weddings. Weddings are beautiful and fun occasions that most people look forward to.  It is a day filled with wonderful moments that you would love to keep the memories alive.
One of the best ways to document your wedding is to take pictures. It is important you consider these tips before hiring a photographer to capture your big day.

1.    Do your research

Most people have been able to attend weddings or even get married and go through every tradition without really knowing why they perform certain rites. How much do you really know about weddings and being a bride? If you are reading this article, you are in luck because it’s your chance to learn about the origin of some popular wedding traditions!
Here are a few wedding traditions explained:

Kissing the bride

Ever wondered about your ring size? You would not believe how easy it is to measure your ring size accurately, in just a few minutes, in the comfort of your home. We can think of several ways you can put this knowledge to good use:

1.    Tell all your friends your ring size and tell them they better help out your significant other (now or in the future) when he’s going ring-shopping. Might as well tell them the kind of ring you like while you’re at it.

A clean kitchen aside being beneficial to one's health, also makes cooking more attractive. However, getting to clean the kitchen after a delicious meal can be so stressful, but you really have to clean it up. Here are few tips to make the cleaning process easier.

1.     Pick a convenient spot to prepare the ingredients for your meals.

Marriage is meant to last for a life time. However, there are some circumstances or situation that occurs that makes things end.  These things could be the death of a spouse, divorce due to unreconciliable issues like domestic violence amongst all other reasons.
After all these, you discover you are back to the single life again, and perhaps you still look forward to getting married someday. Thus, there are factors to consider before remarrying because a second or third marriage can be quite difficult especially when children are involved.

Living in Nigeria and getting married traditionally will expose you to a lot of new traditions that you may not have known even as a local but there are so many traditions that we are equally unexposed to by not researching other cultures and ways of life outside the country. Here are some interesting wedding facts that you don’t know:

For Good Luck
•    The Hindu regard rain as good luck on their wedding days
•    The Egyptians pinch brides on their wedding days for good luck
•    Throwing peas at newlyweds is a tradition of the Czech

We may have tribal wedding traditions in Nigeria, each of them important and unique in their own right but how much do we know about other African- inspired traditions around the world? Thinking of marrying an African- American or even a Ghanaian? Here are five African- inspired wedding traditions you should know about:

Jumping The Broom

Not every relationship leads to marriage, and not all relationship lasts for long. As such, there are some signs that you should look out for to prevent a "story that touches the heart".
Here are signs you should look out for.

1.    Little or no communication
Human relations is sustained through effective communication and as such a relationship cannot survive without communication.